Reimagining the Federal Budget Process

There is broad agreement federal budgeting is not an orderly process that reflects the nation’s needs and priorities. The Reimagining the Federal Budget Process series explores both fundamental reforms of the budget process and the political science of achieving reform. Click here to visit the Brookings page: 'Reimagining the Federal Budget Process, where we have budget research and options for ways to improve the budgeting and the budget process.

In our most recent research, Stuart Butler and Tim Higashi present three reasons to be optimistic about the prospects of budget process reform.